Question

Sarah and her supervisor, Walsh, suggest holding off one month on releasing the Daniel report in order to secure funding for restructuring. If the restructuring helped more people in the long run than the number of people injured (or killed) in the month before releasing the report, this would indicate Sarah and Walsh are following which ethical perspective?

A. Relativism
B. Utilitarianism
C. Virtue ethics
D. Universalism
E. Egoism

Answer 1

Answer: Option (B)

Step-by-step explanation:

Utilitarianism is referred to as or known as a group of the consequential ethical theories which tend to promote the task that tends to maximize well-being and happiness for most of the population. There are different variation of the utilitarianism that tends to admit the different characterizations, rudimentary notion behind it is to maximize utility, that often described in concept of well-being.